How do you put down paving stones?

**Coldrider** · 3rd October 2009, 21:00

Not hard, done it a few times, just completed some under my clotheline last week, bordered around them in exposed aggregate concrete to hold them in.
Cuts made with a 100mm angle grinder (diamond blade can be had for app $15) and hammer, clean & precise, just need to make sure the sub base is good, and keep an eye on the finished level you are working to.

**Coldrider** · 3rd October 2009, 21:05

Read the DIY brochures, fully armed with the info, sorry but rest is down on your hands & knees.

**Gareth123** · 3rd October 2009, 21:09

Originally Posted by Coldrider

Read the DIY brochures, fully armed with the info, sorry but rest is down on your hands & knees.

My girlfriend is pretty good on her hands and knees. Perhaps I should get her to help?

**Coldrider** · 3rd October 2009, 21:13

Originally Posted by Gareth123

My girlfriend is pretty good on her hands and knees. Perhaps I should get her to help?

Sorry, that is how cobble paving is, or yeah, wear leather or cotton gloves as well, really abrasive on the hands I can tell ya.

**Coldrider** · 3rd October 2009, 21:17

The work is getting the sand compact & level, compact & level and again, once the base is compact & level, you are literaly placing the pavers on top, then haunching the edges and sweeping the sand in the joints.
It is all in the base. Don't bother doing it when the sand is really wet. (we used to use limestone sand, now we use concrete sand).